A next‑generation ERP for Metal Service Centers — engineered to optimize inventory, strengthen customer relationships, and improve your bottom line with secure, flexible cloud or on‑premise deployment.

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Metal Business Manager(MBM)

A modern ERP software engineered for Metal Service Centers — flexible, secure, and ready for cloud or on‑site deployment.

Flat Roll Solutions

MBM provides a comprehensive solution for the Flat Rolled Service Center Industry from Slitting, Cut-to-length, Toll Processing, Production Scheduling & EDI. MBM will automate your business processing with its intelligent modules placing you ahead of your competitors.

Multiline Solutions

Metal Business Manager Plus is a complete software package for Multiline Service Centres which handles every aspect of your metal business by managing Inventory, Sales, Purchasing, Production, Shipping and Invoicing. MBM Plus has built-in EDI functionality.

EDI & Custom Development

MBM has built-in EDI functionality. EDI can speed up your business cycles by 61% and improves data quality, delivering at least a 30–40% reduction in transactions by eliminating errors from illegible handwriting, lost faxes/mail and keying errors.

Why Choose MBM?

Built exclusively for metal service centers — not adapted from generic ERP

Fast Implementation

Go live quickly with a system designed for your industry — no lengthy customizations or workarounds.

Cloud or On-Premise

Deploy MBM on your servers or in the cloud — flexible infrastructure that grows with your business.

Real-Time Analytics

Make data-driven decisions with live dashboards for sales, profitability, and production metrics.

Built-in EDI

Eliminate manual errors and speed up business cycles by 61% with fully integrated electronic data interchange.

Enterprise Security

Role-based access control with full audit trails at the group, user, module, and data-field level.

Dedicated Support

Our team of metal industry experts provides responsive, knowledgeable support every step of the way.

Services

We are here to help you with custom business solutions to fit all of your needs

Inventory Management

Inventory Management Interface
  • Manage Resale and Toll/COM Inventory
  • Search Inventory quickly by Product, Gauge, Location, Heat Number, Status, Tag and Owner
  • Extensive Traceability and History
  • Tag Based Inventory
  • Print/scan Different Barcode Tags for Resale and Toll material
  • Both imperial and metric measurements for Gauge, width, length, Weight, ID, OD, PIW/KMW, PSI
  • Increase accuracy and process efficiencies:
    • Creating inventory items from PO's
    • Creating inventory items from EDI ASN's
    • Replicating inventory items
    • Transferring inventory ownership
  • Reserve, Designate Inventory for future sale
  • E-mail, Fax and Print Directly

Customer Manager

  • Create and maintain Customer/Prospect profiles
  • Manages multiple ship-to addresses
  • Increase user efficiency: Reduce data entry time and errors by using customer and ship-to default requirements
  • Maintains confidential customer information
  • Setup EDI Requirements
  • Customer Financial History
  • Manages financial information by:
    • Currency
    • Credit Limit
    • Terms
    • Banking Information
    • Taxes
Customer Manager Interface

Sales Order

Sales Order Interface
  • Create Sales Quotes and Orders for Resale and Toll Processing/COM Material
  • Duplicate Orders or only order items from previous Orders
  • Track and maintain historical data of all Orders and Quotes
  • Create bar-coded Shipping Tags directly from Orders
  • Select inventory Item(s) for material production and assign to orders
  • Search Orders by Part Number, PO, Gauge, Product, Grade, Width, Length, Weight
  • Enhance order accuracy using customer/ship-to defaults
  • Track orders by status (Quote, Order, On-hold, Production, Complete, Cancelled)
  • Print processing order for Plant/Shop operators
  • Convert Quote to Order with just a click
  • Manage all gauges MAX/MIN/NOM with +/- tolerances
  • Credit Warning
  • E-mail, EDI and Print Directly

Purchasing/Receiving

  • Standard and Blanket Purchase Orders
  • Create PO template and replicate PO and/or PO items
  • Buyout Purchase Orders, Order all material in one PO
  • Track Purchase Orders through statuses (Entered, Printed, Received, Complete and Canceled)
  • Keep track of PO revisions
  • Search PO's with powerful search engine
  • Track Material on order and/or on hand
  • Imperial & Metric measurements
  • Warehouse/Office Model for Receiving
  • Receive material from PO's and print Bar-coded inventory tags
  • Receive Material from EDI advanced shipping notice
  • Print different copies of PO for Office, File and Vendor
Purchase Order Interface

Sales Analysis

Sales Analysis Dashboard
  • Sales by Customer, Country, Location, Gauge, Product, Grade, Width, Length, Weight
  • Sales Productivity and Profitability
  • Quotes to Order Analysis
  • Generate Executive Sales Summaries by:
    • $ Value
    • Weight
    • GL account

Profit Margin Analysis

  • Profit Margin by Customer, Country, Location, Gauge, Product, Grade, Width, Length, Weight
  • Profit Margin by Inventory item/Coils
  • Profit Margin by Sales Rep
Profit Margin Analysis

Production

Production Run Interface
  • Create Production Runs from sales orders with one click
  • Multiple Sales Orders on a single Job
  • Extensive Traceability
  • Work Center/Machine Scheduling
  • Send EDI's for Production Status
  • Track Production Runs via statuses (Entered, Pending, Scheduled, InProcess, Complete)
  • Real-time Recording in Plant
  • Scale Interface
  • Work-in-Process Tracking
  • Bar-coded Labels for Scanning and Identification
  • Full Arbor Layout with knife positions and OD breaks
  • Layout Instructions (run full, run partial, OD splits/breaks, edge trim)
  • Slit and Re-slit Functions
  • Slit to PIW/KMW
  • Return-to-stock Dimension and Quantity
  • Dispose coils
  • Create child Inventory items from restock
  • E-mail, EDI and Print Directly

Packaging & Shipping

  • Shipping/Lift Tags
    • Create shipping tags by scanning Mult tags
    • Search Shipping tag with powerful search engine
    • Track Shipping tags by status (Shipped, On-Hold, Storage)
    • Print, Email bar-coded lift tags
  • Packaging
    • Create packing slips automatically by scanning or entering shipping/lift tags
    • Search packing slips with powerful search engine
    • Track Packing slips/BOL by status (Ready, On-Hold, Loaded/on-route, Delivered)
    • Print, Email, Fax Shipping Documents
    • Print-Email-Fax automatic Test Certs
    • Shipments Scheduling
Packing Slip Interface

Financial Management

Invoice Interface
  • Invoicing
  • Create Invoices from packing slips, BOL and sales orders with one click
  • Search Invoices with powerful search engine
  • Customer-based Taxes and currencies
  • Credit Management
  • Excellent audit trails
  • Full G/L Integration
  • Financial Reporting
  • Third Party Financial Product Integration (optional)

EDI

  • MBM has built-in EDI Module
  • EDI can speed up your business cycles by 61%
  • Improves data quality, delivering at least a 30–40% reduction in transactions with errors
  • Using EDI can reduce the order-to-cash cycle time by more than 20%
  • Errors from illegible handwriting, lost faxes/email are eliminated
  • Reduce transaction costs by at least 35%
EDI Interface

Reports, Barcodes and Certs

Reports Interface
  • Financial
  • Sales
  • Inventory
  • Purchasing
  • Processing
  • Order Log
  • Shipping
  • Test Certs
  • Claims

Security

  • Metal Business Manager has Robust Group/User, Module, Menu, Data/Field security
  • Group/User (any data entered/modified is traceable)
  • Modules (create, edit, view) by group/user
  • Data/Field (traceability for data modification)
Security Interface

What Our Clients Say

Trusted by metal service centers to transform their operations

"MBM has completely transformed how we manage our flat-rolled inventory and production scheduling. We reduced processing errors by over 40% in the first year alone."

Operations Director
Flat-Rolled Service Center, Ontario

"The built-in EDI module saved us thousands in integration costs. Our order-to-cash cycle time dropped by 25% and our customers love the faster turnaround."

General Manager
Multi-Line Metal Distributor, USA

"We evaluated three ERP vendors before choosing MBM. The depth of metal-industry-specific features was unmatched, and the implementation was fast and painless."

VP of Technology
Steel Service Center, Alberta

See MBM in Action

Schedule a personalized demo and discover how Metal Business Manager can streamline your operations, boost profitability, and give you the competitive edge.

  • Live walkthrough of all modules
  • Tailored to your specific workflows
  • No obligation — completely free
  • Available via online meeting

Request Your Free Demo

Get in Touch

Reach out to get started and immediately see the benefits of MBM.

39 Baylawn Circle Brampton, ON L6P 2M5

(416) 803-8792

futuresoftinc@rogers.com

Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM